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Terry Tempest Williams will present The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

EVENT OVERVIEW: Terry Tempest Williams will Present her New Softcover The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Terry Tempest Williams is the Award-Winning Author of fifteen Books, including Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, and When Women Were Birds. Her work has been widely anthologized around the world. She lives in Castle Valley, Utah, with her husband, Brooke Williams.

ABOUT THE NEW BOOK: America's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the environmental classic Refuge and the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them. From the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big Bend in Texas and more, Williams creates a series of lyrical portraits that illuminate the unique grandeur of each place while delving into what it means to shape a landscape with its own evolutionary history into something of our own making. Part memoir, part natural history, and part social critique, The Hour of Land is a meditation and a manifesto on why wild lands matter to the soul of America.

EVENT FORMAT: Terry Tempest Williams will Present her New Softcover The Hour of Land and answer audience questions. A Booksigning will follow the Presentation.

ADMISSION PACKAGE: This is a Complimentary OPEN House Event. Registration is Required at www.MyMCPL.org/Events or Call the Library at 816-883-4900. Rainy Day Books will have Terry Tempest Williams’ Books for Sale at this Event. Seating is General Admission.

DISCLAIMER: All Author Event sales are final and non-refundable. Kansas Sales Tax is charged on all Orders, regardless of destination. Unless otherwise indicated, Authors will only sign Books purchased from Rainy Day Books. Additional Books are available for purchase at our Author Event.

Event date:

Wednesday, July 26, 2017 - 7:00pm

Event address:

Mid-Continent Public Library, Woodneath Library Center, The Story Center